Designing Buildings Wiki competition

Designing Buildings Wiki, the construction industry knowledge base, has joined forces with BSRIA to launch a new competition looking for fresh and innovative ideas in response to the question:

How can tomorrow's challenges be met by today's buildings?

The competition, which is open to students and professionals from all disciplines, is seeking original ideas for design solutions to the future trends that will affect the built environment. It asks the question; how can buildings be designed today to ensure they are resilient to the changes they will face tomorrow?

Ideas could relate to:

Urbanisation and demographics.

Climate change.

Digital technologies.

Energy and efficiency.

Health and wellbeing.

And more...

The organisers are looking for ideas, so they do not have to be long answers, but answers should be made up of two parts:

Identify a significant future challenge.

Offer a design solution for how that challenge could be tackled in today's buildings.

The winner will receive £500 worth of BSRIA membership, training or publications, and along with four runners-up, will be featured in BSRIA's Delta T magazine and on Designing Buildings Wiki.

Designing Buildings Wiki co-founder, architect Dr Gregor Harvie said:

'We already know many of challenges that will confront us in the next few decades, and the buildings we are designing now will have to face those challenges. So it is crucial we consider what design features we should be including in buildings now to ensure they have long-term resilience. This competition is an opportunity to put forward innovative, inspiring and even controversial ideas to help start the debate.'